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Wings Up
Produced byFirst Motion Picture Unit
StarringClark Gable
Gilbert Roland
Robert Preston
Distributed byOffice of War Information
Release date
  • 1943 (1943)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Wings Up is a short propaganda film produced by the US Air Force during World War II.

Narrated by Clark Gable the short informed the youth of America about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces. It emphasized that while usually these courses would take years, the country was at war now and needed all the pilots it could get and fast. The curriculum is briefly outlined as well as the kind of life a cadets would lead at one of these facilities.